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I encourage everyone to switch to E-Statements where possible. Not for the environmental benefit but rather from a security prospective.

It seems that these days, letter mail is a secondhand service. Australia post has no guarantee that the delivery of addressed ordinary letter mail will ever get to the correct recipient. Also, modern individuals do not respect the laws governing opening others mail, with people out there that deliberately steal mail to get personal information.

Every time a company send out a bill or statement, Australia post profits and uses that profit to prop up this prehistoric letter mail service.

Lest do some calculations. Lets assume that on average our individual has a credit card, savings account, mortgage, water bill/rates, phone, power, gas, shire rates, car registration, insurance. Lets also assume that not all billers send monthly bills and only big companies have e-billing services.

Assuming that these big companies send letters out at a discount rate say 52.8 cents per letter. http://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/pre-sort-letters.html&nbsp; The total money made by Auspost is per individual is $26.40. Multiply that by 1 Million individuals willing to change across to e-statements and their gross loss becomes over $26 Million! A substantial loss which is most welcome in my opinion.

But who is to say that email is safe?
If you have ever switched across to e-statements, a company usually does not email your bill or statement directly to you. Rather they will send you a message informing you that it is awaiting payment online. You then log into their secured site, and view the document there. Print it out locally or save it to a encrypted thumbdrive.

If you are an Aussie and have not realised already, Australia is the land where everyone has to make a buck, every step of the way.

Going into Amcal the other day, I experienced this first hand by getting prescription medicine. The cost of the medicine was $24.95 and I paid and collected. Afterwards, I decided to conduct a price check with Chemist Warehouse, simply because they post their prices online. To my shock their price was only $15.99 pickup.

I complained by calling their customer service hotline to complain (1800 500 760). I asked them why their prices were almost 50% higher that the competitors. The lady that took my call immediately got into the defensive and blurted out the following statements:

Amcal does not mark up any of their prescription medications. (They possibly purchase it at a inflated price from the supplier)

Amcal focuses on customer service and that is one of the reasons why their price is higher than competitors, like Chemist Warehouse. ($9 surcharge is not worth the 20 seconds of face to face contact)

Asking for a refund or even a part refund, they refused. Their prices are not affordable, and cannot be justified. I believe that everyone that has been wrongly done by Amcal should complain using the 1800 500 760 number and leave a bad review on their google place page or any other social media outlet. endded up telling her to get lost, Im never shopping in another amcal chemist – AGAIN!

I cannot enter height dimensions for sending a parcel. If you cannot get you core business right than you should move onto selling cheap rubbish like crap DVD palyers and Set top boxes – oh wait, nevermind

Fuck you Austpost! Your prices are too high and your retail model is inefficient. Get rid of the stupid staff and have customers post in their own parcels. The technology is there to measure / weigh boxes automatically at a point of sale environment. But knowing the way you guys go about things, you will just fuck it up.